Friday, October 07, 2005

Well, I thought that my blog title might flush out some American Shiteology Majors & general Intelligent Design Apologists/Fantasists for starters. Nope! I suppose THAT would be too much to hope for...if you are an Amerikan reading this you are in all likelyhood a DEMOCRAT (East or West coast?). Of course being a European Generic Democrat Liberal type myself, I have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WItH AMERICAN REPUBLICANS, as long as they stay out in the garden. I must admit that IRISH REPUBLICANS make me feel quite ill too though. Anyways, I will defend anybodies ABSOLUTE RIGHT to say & believe whatever they want, as long as they do not try & impose their views on those who don't agree with them by intimidation or force. Was'nt it Voltaire who said (I'm paraphrasing him here in English) " I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your RIGHT to say it with my life" (but preferably with someone else's life, epecially if you're a member of Al-Qaeda or a NeoCon). Well I hope that's clear now, y'all. Incidentally, there's a Town calledYoughal(pronounced "y'all") here in Ire-r-land, in East Cork County. So if you're ever in Youghal George, be careful not to confuse the locals - "Y'all from Youghal?". If you do visit, & EVERYBODY IS WELCOME to come & check Ireland out, (unless you're a member of Al-Qaeda or a NeoCon) Make sure you try to LEAVE DUBLIN at some stage during your vacation. Try West Cork County. Especially Baltimore (in West Cork, the original one, not the Yankee one). Tis a little piece of Paradise boy...and you know what? My own County, Wicklow is really nice too (& a lot nearer to Dublin Airport now our Dublin Orbital Motorway/Freeway/Highway/Autobahn/Autostrada/Autoroute, the M50, is FINALLY finished. It took more than TWENTY YEARS to complete about 40km). Dunno Why they called it the M50. We've no M49 right through to 12. We DO have an M11 however, which is about 5 mins drive from my keyboard here, sorry, I digress. If you've bothered to read this far, I may have got away with it. Now please, scroll on...

Ps. What I wanna know is this - how can CREATIONISTS delude themselves thatso called Intelligent Design somehow makes The Universe more wondrous. All THE EVIDENCE accumulated by humanity to date demonstrates that there is no need for an "Intelligent Designer". Why oh why can't each & every person on this lump of rock just open thier eyes/ears/hearts & minds & look & see & learn from ALL THE EVIDENCE SCIENCE HAS GIFTED US that the Universe we know & love actually, on the balance of all evidences & probabilities,happenstanced spontaneously. Maybe that's just too scary an insight to comprehend for a lot of good Christian (& Muslim & Jewish) folks. OK, obviuosly it is, but you know what I mean. Heck, why think for yourself dude? It's all there in the Good Book's. Case closed. Now let's go kill each other over the details.And I know I should'nt start a sentence with "And" but I'm mad as hell, I meanwhy must they HIJACK those two words, quite good ones. Intelligent. Design. I can't even utter them in this blog anymore, so in future I'll call it "ID". Ok, so I got a bug up my ass called INTELLIGENT DESIGN, shite, typed it again. Sure, I'd love the cosy emotional security blanket & slippers of a Creator God up there in the clouds, creating away, sorting us mere mortals out into convenient piles, one marked "Damnation" (the bigger one), the other marked "Salvation". I'm sorry guys BUT I JUST CAN'T BUY THAT! ThoseCREATIONIST ZEALOTS have hi-jacked two perfectly innocent & useful words for their own nefarious needs. Intelligent Design = Creationism that's well understood I know. Without a sinlge ATOM of physical evidence (one of my favorite words, definitely) they use those two words to describe their "Theory". Well, is it not an oximoranically & hysterically inappropriate use of the english language? Now I know (it's been commented on here already from another blogger) that I am basically railing & ranting against "ID" in this blog. That I am not putting forward any cohesive & cogent arguments to challenge it logically. Some shite about if I found a watch in a field one day , how would I know if somebody made it, or created it. Jesus. (I'm a lapsed Catholic, so please indulge me the luxury of that expression of exasperation!). Anyway, it would probably have "Made in Japan" (or more bleedin' likely now, "Made In China" engraved on the back of it). All I can say is that minds a helluva lot more focussed than mine, (eg. Professor Richard Dawkins) has debunked "ID" repeatedly & forensically in his published works on numerous occasions. His arguments are extremely well laid out, logical, eloquent & persuasive. His EVIDENCE to counter the non evidence of "ID" is overwhelming. If you are unsure then go to any library, heck it's the Information Age...Google him, it'll all be there for you. Oh bugger, if you are an antideluvian, claminded ID proponent (I just invented that expression, clam-minded = claminded = closed mind!), well you won't be READING this liberal diatribe anyway. Maybe though, you are a teenager who's parents are brainwashing you with all that Christian FundamentalistShiteology, & you secretly blogsurf when they are busy away at Walmart buying more ammo for Armegeddon. Do youself a favour if that is YOU! GOOGLERichardDawkinsNOW!

Phew. Oh. I feel much better now, time for a game of Battlefield 2 now as a reward Des, yes. Cyber Insurgents shoot back but it does'nt hurt (or leave a mess). And the Online Game Maps are so intelligently designed...

Bloody Hell, these are MUCH MORE INSIDIOUS than email Spam. I actually read the first paragraph otf the last BlogSpam posting with a sense of mounting EXCITEMENT! I gotta hit! Some Sentient Being Outhere has connected with me here....FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! Oh. No . Look at paragraph 2. Blog Spam. Bother.

We work like a horse.We eat like a pig.We like to play chicken.You can get someone's goat.We can be as slippery as a snake.We get dog tired.We can be as quiet as a mouse.We can be as quick as a cat.Some of us are as strong as an ox.People try to buffalo others.Some are as ugly as a toad.We can be as gentle as a lamb.Sometimes we are as happy as a lark.Some of us drink like a fish.We can be as proud as a peacock.A few of us are as hairy as a gorilla.You can get a frog in your throat.We can be a lone wolf.But I'm having a whale of a time!

You have a riveting web logand undoubtedly must haveatypical & quiescent potentialfor your intended readership.May I suggest that you doeverything in your power tohonor your encyclopedic/omniscientDesigner/Architect as wellas your revering audience.As soon as we acknowledgethis Supreme Designer/Architect,Who has erected the beauteousfabric of the universe, our mindsmust necessarily be ravished withwonder at this infinate goodness,wisdom and power.

There is a time for everything,a season for every activityunder heaven. A time to beborn and a time to die. Atime to plant and a time toharvest. A time to kill anda time to heal. A time totear down and a time torebuild. A time to cry anda time to laugh. A time togrieve and a time to dance.A time to scatter stonesand a time to gather stones.A time to embrace and atime to turn away. A time tosearch and a time to lose.A time to keep and a time tothrow away. A time to tearand a time to mend. A timeto be quiet and a time tospeak up. A time to loveand a time to hate. A timefor war and a time for peace.

P.S. One thing of which I am sure isthat the common culture of my youthis gone for good. It was hollowed outby the rise of ethnic "identity politics,"then splintered beyond hope of repairby the emergence of the web-basedtechnologies that so maximized andfacilitated cultural choice as to makethe broad-based offerings of the oldmass media look bland and unchallengingby comparison."

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I read your diatribe with interest. You are certainly no fan of intelligent design. However you did not refute the theory, you simply scoffed at it and its proponents. I would like to hear any actual refutations you have of ID. What ID believers often argue is this: You are out walking in a field. You find a wristwatch lying in the grass. It is working. Do you believe: (a) Someone designed and built the watch, then dropped it here, or (b) the watch sprang into existence on its own, by sheer chance. Of course both are possible, but most people believe (a). So then, the blade of grass beside the watch is even more intricate than the watch, with millions of working parts. Why then believe it came into being by chance when you cannot believe the same about the simpler watch?Please, an un-emotional refutation of ID. I know you can do it.

Other than that I like your blog a lot. You have a sort of free-flow style, do you talk like that too?

I must say though, I am surprised to find pornographic images alongside those of your children. Would you consider removing them, to make your site more family-friendly?

Your drawings are excellent. Have you considered taking up drawing again?

Ok. You made some fair points about my less than forensic effotrs to "diss" ID. There are far more learned, persuasive & eloquent debunkers of it around than me(eg Prof. Richard Dawkins). I suppose there's a lot of blinkered/right wing/christian fundamentalist types out there trying to refute the Theory Of Evolution. To my knowledge not a single one has explained away that Theory, upon which I place MY faith, which is supported by the Scientific Method,evidence based reasoning & literally mountains full of ancient fossils.I hope that partly adresses the important issues you raised. As for the (not so) pornographic pictures (meant to be a parody more than anything)' I've removed them as your point was well made & relevant.

Yes, ubfortunately for all my friends & family (& long suffereing wife in particular), I do tend to talk like I type, only MUCH quicker!

Yes, with positive feedback like yours, I may well get my pencil & paper out again someday...

Thanks again for taking the time to leave a comment. I'm curious as to why you decided to be anonymous. Mainly because I'm not sure if you';ll ever see this reply. Maybe the convention is to go come bavk here & check if you arte anon. If so then that's perfectly fine with me...

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